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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (8 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: Does the Minister of State believe we will achieve it in 2018?

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: On page 131 of the programme for Government, reference is made to rapid response units and severe weather warnings. I congratulate the emergency services, the hospital staff who made it into work, residents who cleared their areas and utility companies. Does the Minister accept that there is an information deficit on this? I do not get any sense of urgency when we come into Dublin city...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Seán Crowe: Are we learning anything from these storms and weather difficulties? What will we do differently the next time?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the business and human rights implementation group as required under the national plan on business and human rights 2017 to 2020 has been established; the composition of the group; and when it will commence its work. [8961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has commissioned a baseline assessment of the legislative and regulatory framework pertaining to business and human rights here as committed to under the national plan on business and human rights 2017 to 2020; and when it will be completed. [8962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount each local authority has budgeted for repair and maintenance of its housing stock in each year for the past four years; and the amount of housing stock each has in tabular form. [8226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Data (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times each local authority has been to court as plaintiff against unauthorised developments in the past four years in tabular form. [8227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if solar farms need an environmental impact assessment before they can be built. [8228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Asbestos Remediation Programme (20 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assistance his Department is providing to families that have asbestos on their property to help mitigate against its future harm. [8229/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (13 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is growing concern for the health and well-being of a number of political prisoners in Bahrain (details supplied); and if he will raise the issues with his Bahraini counterpart. [6949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 531. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a consistent broadband service to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [6988/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senator Frances Black and Deputy Sean Sherlock. Are there any other apologies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: Attendees are welcome to our second meeting of 2018. We will today resume our discussions on legacy issues. In public session we will hear from Ms Judith Thompson, the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: I would like to warmly welcome to our meeting Ms Judith Thompson, Commissioner for Victims and Survivors, and Mr. John Beggs, secretary to the Commission for Victims and Survivors. We will invite witnesses to give their opening statements, which will be followed by some questions from the committee. First, however, some notices are required. I remind members, guests and those in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: Normally we get three people ask questions and the witnesses can then reply. They have given us a broad and comprehensive view of the workload in which they are involved in regard to victims. They said some victims want to know information while others do not, some people feel let down and that some structures are lacking. I am conscious that many political leaders are sitting down today...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: A number of people have indicated they wish to speak. I will take a group of them and then come back to the witnesses. I am conscious the witnesses need to leave at a certain time and I ask them to indicate when they have had enough questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: In her opening statement Ms Thompson quoted from the Good Friday Agreement: "The achievement of a peaceful and just society would be a true memorial to the victims of violence." I thank the witnesses for their invitation to meet the Victims and Survivors Forum, which the committee will certainly consider. The witnesses and their commission's independent voice and effort to address the very...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by a person (details supplied) who has been awaiting a rheumatologist appointment for fibromyalgia for 18 months in Tallaght Hospital; and the length of time this person will have to wait to see a consultant. [6478/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (8 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the approximate waiting time for the diabetic retinol screening clinic in the eye and ear hospital, Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. [6537/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Seán Crowe: The programme for Government at pages 65 to 69 deals with greater access to mental health care and outlines proposals on services that are missing or thin on the ground in my constituency. There were four suicide deaths in my constituency over a 12-day period. Behind all these deaths, there is a grieving family, friends, neighbours and loved ones. Sadly, I do not know the number of deaths...